Jeremy Novy

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November/December2006

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My art has a lot to do with social issues. I find that once a neighborhood has one or two boarded-up houses in plain view things change. One’s pride for one’s neighborhood starts to diminish, and crime starts to climb since others know no one is going to tell them to get off their property since no one lives there. Things like drug dealing and prostitution move in.

I’m trying to address these issues along with bringing art and beauty back to the neighborhood. To create my art I take pictures of doors and windows. I then take those images and have them made into life-size posters. Those are then wheat pasted to the boards covering the door or windows of the vacant house. But this is not a permanent solution to the problem, and as time passes the images will rip and fade back into the boarded-up house.

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3307 N. Holton St.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

2923 N. Holton St.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

506 E. Center St.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2846 N. Dr Martin Luther King Dr.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2846 N. Martin Luther King Dr. before 2846 N. Martin Luther King Dr. before

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2701 N. Dr Martin Luther King Dr.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

2675 N. Dr Martin Luther King Dr.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

   

2373 E. Meinecke Ave.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

   

1130 W. North Ave.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

   

1349 W. North Ave.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

   

1467 N. Water St.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

   

1020 1st St.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin